Card-holding device



Sept. 8,1925; 1,552,729

H. L. PEPP CARD HOLDING DEVICE Filed Maych '24. -1'924 Patented Sept. 8, 1925.

UNITED STATES HENRY L. PIPP, OF KALKASKA, MICHIGAN.

CARD-HOLDING DEVICE.

Application filed March 24, 1924. Serial No. 701,310.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY L. PIPP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kal-' kaska, in the county of Kalkaska and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Card-Holding Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to cardholding clips and its object is toprovide an improved clip or device for holding price cards and the like which shall be simple and economical in construction, shall securely hold or grip the card, shall be easily operated tothus grip or release the card, and may be easily mounted removably in in a fixed position.

These and any other objects hereinafter appearing are attained by, and the invention finds preferable embodiment in, the device hereinafter particularly described in the body of this specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view of my card-holding device taken on line 11 of Figure 2 and showing a card held thereby;

Figure 2 is a front or face View of the device;

Figure 3 is a bottom plan view thereof;

Figure 4 is a top plan View of the same;

Figure 5 is an edgewise view of said device, showing the card-holding tongue swung outwardly;

Figure 6 is a like view of the same, the lower part being sectioned on line l1 of Figure 2, and said tongue shown swung inwardly;

Figure 7 shows said device applied to a horizontal shelf and holding a card; and

Figure 8' shows the device applied to a vertical member of a cabinet or the like.

My device is made from a sheet (as metal), capable of being bent into set shapes or forms. As shown in the drawings, this sheet is bent on the straight lines 1 and 2 to form a middle portion or leaf 3 and a pair of parallelly disposed leaves 4, 5 spaced angularly from the middle leaf. The leaf 5 of said pair has a tongue or clip 6 formed by cutting the middle leaf at 7, said tongue being bent at approximately right angles to its carrying leaf 5 and spaced slightly outwardly from the middle leaf when said leaf and leaf 5 are at approximately right angles with each other as shown in all the views except Figure 5, It will be seen that when the leaf 5 is bent on line 2 toward the middle leaf as seen in Figure '5 the tongue 6 is swung outwardly from the middle leaf so that the edge of a card 8 may be inserted between the tongue and middle leaf; and that when the leaf 5 is swung opp0sitelyi. e., away from the middle leafby bending the sheet on said line 2, the middle leaf and leaf 5, being now in the relative position seen in the other views, the card 8 will be securely held or gripped between the tongue and middle leaf. To strengthen the tongue and ;to insure its swinging movement with the leaf, this leaf has a rib 9 convexing outwardly cross-sectionally and extending toward the middle leaf, which rib terminates in the tongue as shown.

A device as above described with the card gripped thereby may be set on a table or other horizontal surface to display the card; but the other leaf 4 is provided in order that the device may be removably but se curely mounted on a shelf 10 (Figure 7) or a vertical member 11 of a cabinet or the like (Figure 8) the pair of leaves 4, 5 being adapted to be supportingly held by such shelf or member inserted between them. It will be seen that the sheet being somewhat resilient, the leaves 4, 5 may be sprung apart to receive the shelf or said member and will thereupon yieldingly engage it, and in such action the leaf 5 being swung further away from the middle leaf will cause the tongue 6 to more tightly grip the card. The separating of the leaves 4 and 5 by the shelf 10 or member 11 thus presses the tongue 6 more tightly on the card. A plurality of tongues 6 (preferably a pair thereof) are desirably provided as shown.

I claim:

In an integrally-formed device for holding cards: a sheet bendable into set shapes and bent to form angularly spaced leaves, one of which has a rib convexing outwardly cross-sectionally and extending toward the other leaf and carrying a tongue formed by cutting said other leaf, the tongue being adapted to be swung by the bending interrelative movement of the leaves into and out of card-holding relation with said other leaf.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Kalkaska, Michigan, this 18th day f Mar h, .92 HENR L. PIPP, 

